New Delhi: Kangana Ranaut has again brought the Emergency into limelight with the film ‘Emergency’, but the real ‘Chief Glamor Girl’ of that era was Sara Ali Khan’s maternal grandmother Rukhsana Sultana, whom even Prime Minister Indira Gandhi used to mention. Saif Ali Khan’s mother-in-law was a legendary personality of the 1970s, who had a special connection with the Gandhi family.
During the ‘Emergency’ period, Rukhsana Sultana was a ‘political power’, who was considered close to PM Indira Gandhi’s son Sanjay Gandhi. There are many media reports in which it is claimed that Sanjay Gandhi had entrusted the task of sterilization of 8 thousand Muslim men to Rukhsana Sultana, but she went beyond the expectations and got the sterilization of 13 thousand Muslim men done. The government took this step as an initiative to control population.
Little Sara Ali Khan is seen in the lap of Rukhsana Sultana.
Muslims started feeling scared
During the ‘Emergency’ period, increasing population was seen as a problem, in controlling which Rukhsana Sultana played a very important role. This was the reason why she had become synonymous with fear for Muslim men. When she passed around Jama Masjid and Turkman Gate, Muslim men used to hide in their homes.
Rukhsana Sultana was the chief glamor girl of ‘Emergency’
Rukhsana Sultana had told in an interview that she had come to meet Sanjay Gandhi of her own free will and had expressed her desire to do some work for the party. It is said that she had a beauty parlor in Old Delhi. She had become a big name in the Congress Party due to her closeness to Sanjay Gandhi and her work. Even businessmen and big leaders used to attend him. She was the ‘Chief Glamor Girl’ of Emergency.
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first published : November 23, 2024, 5:36 pm IST
